Williams, B. (2006) Girl power in a digital world: Considering the complexity of gender, literacy, and technology. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 50 (4) 300-307
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Williams completely ignores all the gender based brain research when, in this article, he blames “culture” for sweeping boys and girls into their identity roles and interests. One example [...]
Wilhelm, J. (2002). Getting boys to read: it’s the context! It’s not the text type so much as the situation that determines why and how boys engage with reading. Scholastic Instructor 16-18.
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Wilhelm contends that when trying to engage boys in reading, it has more to do with the content than the pictures, text type, [...]
Gurian, M., Stevens, K. (2004). With boys and girls in mind. Educational Leadership, 62 (3), 21-26.
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A good article outlining the difference between girls and boys ability to process language and emotion. While it seems that girls are innately more equipped to deal in the world of language and emotion, we can help boys by [...]
While this is actually the 3rd post at We Teach We Learn, discussing gender differentiation in the classroom, this our first experiment using a new form of media–something called a Voice Thread. It’s a sort of mash up hybrid between podcast and a slide show.
I’ve embedded the Voice Thread below, and you can certainly [...]
New research is proving that gender differences are real. Boys and girls are different. From the way their brains are organized to the types of cells in their eyes, groundbreaking studies are showing us just how different the genders really are. In this article, Chris Wondra explains how boys and girls hear differently, and what this means for the way our children and students learn to speak and read.
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Moir, A., Jessel, D. (1991) Brain Sex: The real difference between men & women. New York, NY: Carol Publishing Company
This book is like the mother of almost all gender research books and articles I’ve read because probably eighty percent will refer in one way or another back to this book. Moir and Jessel were [...]
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Sax, L. (2005) Why gender matters: What parents and teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences. New York, NY: Random House.
This is the most interesting and informative book I have read on sex differences between boys and girls. It summarizes scientific studies to show the very real physical differences between [...]
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Wilhelm, J. (2002). Getting boys to read: it’s the context! It’s not the text type so much as the situation that determines why and how boys engage with reading. Scholastic Instructor 16-18.
Wilhelm contends that when trying to engage boys in reading, it has more to do with the content than the [...]
